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CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINATES 20 BOOKS BY U.S. AUTHORS

Twenty books by living American authors published this year have been nominated for prizes in the second annual National Book Critics Circle Awards. Five books were seelcted in each of the four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and criticism.

December 13, 1976

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